Insights

Los Angeles – January 4, 2023: The Inner City Law Center appointed Crowell & Moring counsel Uri Niv to its Board of Directors. Inner City Law Center is a nonprofit poverty-law firm serving the poorest and most vulnerable residents of Los Angeles. As part of their mission, they work to “ensure that people experiencing homelessness and working-poor families have access to decent, safe, and affordable housing.”

Washington – January 3, 2022: Crowell & Moring elected 13 lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2022. The firm also promoted seven to the position of senior counsel and 19 associates to the position of counsel. The new partners have been promoted from within the ranks of the firm’s London, New York, and Washington, D.C. offices and from across several practice groups, including Advertising & Media; Antitrust & Competition; Corporate; Energy; Environment & Natural Resources; Government Contracts; Health Care; Technology & Intellectual Property; International Dispute Resolution; Litigation; Mass Tort, Product, and Consumer Litigation; and Privacy & Cybersecurity.

Effective January 1, 2020, discovery in California state courts follows three new rules, set out in California Code of Civil Procedure sections 2031.280, 2023.050, and 2016.090.